{"id":925001,"date":"2026-10-12T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:20:08","slug":"secretary-bird-kicks-a-cobras-head-with-force-five-times-its-body-weight-5-birds-that-hunt-down-venomous-snakes-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925001\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary bird kicks a cobra&#8217;s head with force five times its body weight: 5 birds that hunt down venomous snakes for lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes are those scary, venomous slitherers that even seeing one sends chills down our spine, and we would hardly want to encounter one of these reptiles.<\/p>\n<p>But nature is full of surprises. While we want to keep a safe distance from serpents, some birds relish them as food.<\/p>\n<p>Over thousands of years, some birds have developed tools, like especially modified talons and flying abilities, that help them make snakes their lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some birds that hunt venomous snakes for lunch:Photos via Canva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snakes are those scary, venomous slitherers that even seeing one sends chills down our spine, and we would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,492603,492604,492606,128,492605,65349,338],"class_list":["post-925001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-birds-that-eat-snakes","tag-birds-that-eat-venomous-snakes","tag-cobra-eating-bird","tag-science","tag-venomous-snake-eater","tag-venomous-snakes","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}